melioration

How To Use melioration In A Sentence

• Nevertheless, slang items often diverge from standard usage in predictable ways, especially by generalization and melioration.
• The ideology of environmentalism was cautiously optimistic about social amelioration and human progress.
• The group followed-up the patients for 20 months observing that although serum aminotransferases did not normalize in either group, telmisartan reduced cytolysis by 30. 28\% and improved insulin resistance by 42. 63\% consequently with a significant decrease of NAS and fibrosis scores and an amelioration of the lipid profile. Medlogs - Recent stories
• James G. Frazer, in "The G.lden Bough," demonstrated that the connection between charismatic leadership and the melioration of suffering was historically a close one: many primitive peoples believed that the magical virtues of a priest-king could guarantee the soil's fertility and that such a leader could therefore alleviate one of the most elementary forms of suffering, hunger. Barack Obama, Shaman
• Although many articles, theoretical essays, and books have been written about metaphors, little effort has been made to investigate them systematically: as all of language is itself a metaphor (unless one believes in logomancy), one is continually confronted in the compilation of an ordinary dictionary with examples of semantic and linguistic changes (as well as amelioration, pejoration, etc.) that are tantamount to shifts of meaning that, loosely, could be said to be metaphoric. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3
• To those who fell victim to my Friday night frazzle, as recipients of either the maudlin or irrationally ranting and offensive, please help yourself to the usual ameliorations and apologies from the box in the corner.
• We owe the steady rapidly improvement on the production to the amelioration of the equipment.
• Always the opponent of sane social reforms which Socialists deride as "melioration" or as futile attempts to shore up an obsolete system, it has consistently disassociated itself from such men as Lord Shaftesbury, who did more to better the conditions of the working classes than anyone who has ever lived. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements
• Instances, rare instances, of such "melioration" and of such "schools of instruction," I doubt not there have been: but, I am confident, that the The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• Therefore racial heredity does not foredoom any people to remain in a low status of culture; only it must be taken into account in explaining the cultural conditions of all peoples, and especially in planning for a people's social amelioration. Sociology and Modern Social Problems